SNOW DAY...again!!

Here are a few pictures from our morning, and a couple from last evening. Deagan LOVES the snow. Brayden is okay with it, he hates that his hands get sooooo cold!!! We had a fun day, but now most of the snow is gone :(

Vegas Baby!!!!

On January 17th Josh and I headed to Vegas with our good friends Kevin and Nicole. Josh and I had signed up for one of those timeshare talks to get a free room, show tickets, and $200 in slot credits. Plus, we hadn't left the kids over night since before Bray was born. Anyway, it was a well overdue trip.

The night before we left (Wednesday) Brayden puked all night long. My parents said go, we have taken care of sick kids before....so we went. Our flight was great, we got in safe.

The first night we went to the Lance Burton Magic show, it was absolutely amazing. Josh and I are not magic fans; but Kev and Nicole got us tickets, so we went. And, WOW, I still can't believe it. We then just watched K & N play the tables...blackjack (we aren't big gamblers). Kevin taught us how to play and at first we did great, then we lost it all. And then walked the strip.

The second day we had our "timeshare" talk....it took FOREVER!!! Anyway we politely said NO, and were on our way. We had tickets to a show this night too, but I started to feel sick to my stomach. And then Mackenzie called (she had the boys this night), and Deagan was sick. Since she is prego, I called my parents and they took the boys for another night. By that time we were way down the strip from our hotel, The Monte Carlo (which caught on fire this week), and I was so nauseated I took the bus back to the hotel, and got sick that entire night. Josh, Kev and Nicole went to the show; and I was in bed.

The next day I rallied around 300pm. We hit the strip, gambled more money away, and went to the Wayne Brady comedy show that night. It was hilarious; he made fun of Josh because he was wearing shorts. We laughed the entire hour and a half.

We had a great time, even though I was sick. The boys were fine, and Josh didn't get sick until this past Saturday. Anyway, here are some pics. We didn't take too many, but enjoy!

A little outing....

So this was my first week starting day shift at the hospital; I worked days about a year ago, but transferred to nights so I could start working on the OB floor. Anyway, it is going great. It is nice to be a "real" person again; sleeping in the dark and eating at normal hours. I miss my night shift girls, but see them in passing. At least I am on the same weekend as the one's I hang out with the most, so we can at least have some girls nights!!

Anyway, I had a staff meeting today, and of course I didn't work, so I had to take the children. My parents are away at a funeral, so no sitter :( These staff meetings can take anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours. With a 4 1/2 year old and a 15 month old you can say I wasn't too excited to attend. But we went anyway.

I had to pick Deagan up from school, and I of course forgot his coloring books and writing stuff at home. So we took a trip to the trusty ole' dollar store; picked up some pencils, crayons, coloring books, and writing books and we were off.

The first 25 minutes were GREAT at the meeting. Deagan sat with his friend Abigail (a girl from his class whose mom I work with). They colored, traded papers etc.....And Brayden was in his stroller (which by the way he hates...he is very mobile and being restricted is against everything in his little world), being great, eating snacks, taking his shoes off and throwing them. Not too bad, I am thinking to myself.

Then, Deagan got tired of sitting and Bray was tired of his stroller and starting to scream. So I took him out (HUGE mistake), he wanted to run around and scream. And of course Deagan wanted to play with him. Needless to say, I made Deagan pick up all of our stuff, and we were out of there. We actually lasted about 35-40 minutes, which I thought was WONDERFUL!! Hopefully I don't get fired for the loud children...haha....We then went out got stickers for Deagan from the nurses station and went home. I put Bray right down for his 2nd nap, and Deagan on the couch for quite time.

Hopefully next staff meeting I work, so I can just pop in.

So it wasn't as horrible as I expected, I was actually pretty impressed.

Holy Cow...where did time go????

Wow, it's been a while for my blogging, shocking, I know.......What we have been doing that has kept us so busy:

*Josh's Family Christmas party was fun, like always. There are a MILLION people there, including 12 great-grand children; there will be 13 next year with my little nephew on the way.

*Xmas was the usually running around. My parents on Xmas eve, our own xmas morning, and then Xmas at Josh's parents. Plus, Josh and I both had to work that day too....it was busy! It was of course a horrible xmas at work, sad stuff...I am very thankful for my children; we will just leave it at that. Josh had a good day, and we were thankful for that!!

*We then went on a venture to San Fran, for the Emerald Bowl (GO BEAVERS, see above picture)....we went without the kids. We had a blast. Thanks to Jenni and Jason who stayed at our house with our little monsters.

*Celebrated New Years with The Gregg's, The Harlan's, The Foote's, The Edmond's and The Redner's (haha)....and all the little kids (6 to be exact, that all made it until midnight, with few timeouts).

*Josh has had an awful cough for the past three weeks (they gave him an inhaler, and cough medicine); which in turn has made his already herniated disc in his back even worse. We are now waiting to see a neurosurgeon.

*I started Day shift at the hospital today....YEA!!! A normal life schedule now. However, I miss the girls from night shift!

Anway, that is what we have been up to; the short version.